Re: st: how to read very long text lines?

... or any decent text editor ...
Nick
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Carl Severson <carlseverson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a specific reason you are using Stata to do this?
>
> I feel like there are a number of better tools to choose from... perl,
> python, unix command line tools which I can't seem to remember the
> names of this late at night, for example
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Li Chuntao (Tony) <leechtcn@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I want to copy a specific line of a text file to another text file.
>> the line number is given, say 2nd line, but this line is too long,
>> more than 1000 characters.
>>
>> Can I use "file read" and "file write" to handl it?
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Phil Clayton
>>> What are you actually trying to achieve?
On 08/03/2013, at 5:56 PM, "Li Chuntao (Tony)" <leechtcn@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Thank you, Ryan. But i am still lost with my file reading.
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Ryan Kessler
>>>>> The key here is to steer clear of the "=" sign; see -help macro-,
>>>>> -help limits-, and -help extended_fcn-.
>>>>>
>>>>> local long ""
>>>>> forval i=1/500 {
>>>>> local long "`long' `=`i'^2'"
>>>>> }
>>>>> di "`long'"
>>>>> di length("`long'")
>>>>> di "`: length local long'"
>>>>>
>>>>> Related discussion -->
>>>>> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2011-09/msg00973.html
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Li Chuntao (Tony) <leechtcn@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> I want to use Stata to read a text file line by line. Suppose the
>>>>>> file is d:\temp.txt. one of the line i specially interested is very
>>>>>> long, more than 1000 characters. I use the following code to read:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> capture file close myread
>>>>>> file open myread using d:\temp.txt , read text
>>>>>> file readmyrea line
>>>>>> while r(eof)==0 {
>>>>>> local linenum = `linenum' + 1
>>>>>> local myline=`" `macval(line)'"'
>>>>>> disp length(`"`macval(myline)'"')
>>>>>> file myrea hexun line
>>>>>>
>>>>>> }
>>>>>> file close hexun
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It seems that the maximium length for a string here is only 240.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is it possible to change it to longer?
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